Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, the West itself was not yet united on the terms for a settlement in Europe. For another, NATO's defense machinery must be kept oiled and ready, both to meet any sudden stiffening within the Communist bloc and to impress upon the Soviets that the West, although eager to pursue rapprochement, can be invited, but not shoved to the conference table...
They have been spurred by publicity about the Government's campaigns to help them find work. Under federal sponsorship, such personalities as Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Astronaut Frank Borman and Mickey Mantle are making televised appeals to businessmen to hire young people. Disturbed that few companies are eager to hire unseasoned or draft-eligible workers, the Government has ordered federal agencies to take on one temporary employee this summer for every hundred regulars on the roll. The program is paying off. Of the 1,000,000 teen-agers searching for summer work, at least two-thirds should find...
...individual research projects, on the other hand, will probably thrive. Most of the researchers are eager to win the co-operation of local school systems and to work in them. Although the Shadow Faculty has shifted its theoretical model from the Crazy School to the Instant School to the Tri-School, the individual research projects have survived and have developed continuities of their...
Costly Rendezvous. Eager to proceed with the planned docking of Gemini and ATDA, Stafford quickly suggested a solution: to nudge the obstructing shroud out of the way by flying up and hitting it gently with Gemini's docking bar. Safety-conscious controllers in Houston vetoed the scheme, instead electronically commanded ATDA's movable docking collar to extend and contract, in a vain try to shake the shroud loose. Another idea was to allow Astronaut Cernan to pry or cut the shroud loose during his scheduled space walk; this was also rejected for fear that the sharp edges might...
Faced with this situation and eager to begin construction, the Administration this spring asked the House's architects to consider an alternative. The architects then relocated some of the House across Cowperthwaite. McNamara's home, however, will be bordered on three sides by the new House...